Empire Games

Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross hits the ground running with Empire Games provocative techno-thriller and fresh storyline in the Merchant Princes universe. It’s 2020. Two nuclear superpowers across timelines one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state are set on a collision course. Each timeline’s increasingly desperate paratime espionage agencies are fumbling around in the dark trying to find a solution to the first-contact problem that doesn''t result in a nuclear holocaust. And two paratime travellers Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence Commissioner Miriam Burgeson and newly minted spy Rita Douglas―a mother and her long-lost adopted daughter―are about to find themselves on opposite sides of the confrontation.